Slovenian School :)

[thinkgreenlovepiano]

 Slovenian 101 with Littletune... for people like me who want to learn Slovenian


Šola se je začela!!!!!




Živijo Littletune!
Kako se reče po slovensko "School is now in session"?


PS: I installed a Slovenian keyboard

PPS: Tell me if something I say doesn't make sense or is wrong please (:

[Bob]

Jaz sem Bob.

[thinkgreenlovepiano]

Jaz sem Bob.

Zdravo Bob!  Kako se imaš? Me veseli. Littletune mi pove? [that you are a legend on here].

Jaz sem "thinkgreenlovepiano" ali "thinkgreenlovepurple."

 (Probably a bunch of mistakes... help me, littletune!
Also what's the difference between živijo and zdravo? And also I just noticed that the z and y are switched around on the Slovenian keyboard )

[invictious]

No one wants to learn Chinese? Boo

[thinkgreenlovepiano]

No one wants to learn Chinese? Boo

Govorim kitajsko. Moj prvi jezik!
(.........So if anyone wants to learn Chinese (Mandarin)... I can help =p )

[Bob]

Topic: Bob learns some Slovenian with Littletune
https://www.pianostreet.com/smf/index.php?topic=38593.0

[littletune]

Slovenian 101 with Littletune... for people like me who want to learn Slovenian

Živijo Littletune!
Kako se reče po slovensko "School is now in session"?


PS: I installed a Slovenian keyboard

PPS: Tell me if something I say doesn't make sense or is wrong please (:

Živijo Thinkgreen (Mislizeleno)   (Oh a lot of times we just write "živjo" without the other "i" but it's more right "živijo" ).
Hmm I couldn't translate "school is now in session" exactly the way it's in English... you would say more something like: "school has begun" or "lesson has begun" so you would say:
Šola se je začela. or: Pouk se je začel.

Really you installed a Slovenian keyboard?  How do you do that? I mean I would like to install a German and French keyboard! 

You wrote everything right in Slovenian! 

[littletune]

Zdravo Bob!  Kako se imaš? Me veseli. Littletune mi pove? [that you are a legend on here].

Jaz sem "thinkgreenlovepiano" ali "thinkgreenlovepurple."

 (Probably a bunch of mistakes... help me, littletune!
Also what's the difference between živijo and zdravo? And also I just noticed that the z and y are switched around on the Slovenian keyboard )

The difference between živijo and zdravo is that živijo is more something you say to friends or someone you know or younger people.... and zdravo is more like something you say to someone older or to someone you don't know that well... oh and zdravo seems kinda more like an older word (something people were saying a lot more when my mum and dad were young but I mean people still say it now just not that often)  Or maybe it's also that they say it more in some other dialects... But don't worry you can say both it's not such a big difference But if you talk to friends it's better to say živijo
That was a long explanation! sorry

Oh no you didn't make any mistakes! You're good! 
except: Littletune mi pove? [that you are a legend on here].

it would be better to say: Littletune told me (or has told me) instead of Littletune says
so: Littletune mi je povedala...
cause that's more the way we would say it... but I mean it's not wrong: Littletune mi pove...

So you're really good at this!!! 

[thinkgreenlovepiano]

The difference between živijo and zdravo is that živijo is more something you say to friends or someone you know or younger people.... and zdravo is more like something you say to someone older or to someone you don't know that well... oh and zdravo seems kinda more like an older word (something people were saying a lot more when my mum and dad were young but I mean people still say it now just not that often)  Or maybe it's also that they say it more in some other dialects... But don't worry you can say both it's not such a big difference But if you talk to friends it's better to say živijo
That was a long explanation! sorry

Oh no you didn't make any mistakes! You're good! 
except: Littletune mi pove? [that you are a legend on here].

it would be better to say: Littletune told me (or has told me) instead of Littletune says
so: Littletune mi je povedala...
cause that's more the way we would say it... but I mean it's not wrong: Littletune mi pove...

So you're really good at this!!! 

It's long, but detailed Hvala!!!
And I used the dictionary a lot. So this just means I'm good at using a dictionary


So the past tense of Littletune mi pove is Littletune mi je povedala?
Is the je like an auxiliary verb for past tense verbs, like how it is in French? 

Could you teach me the rules to conjugating verbs in present tense? Like in French there's verbs with -er -re and -ir endings, and there's different rules depending on the ending of the verb. Is it like that in Slovenian?

(Sorry I'm relating everything to French, it's the only foreign language I learned that you speak too And I hope my questions make sense! )

[littletune]

Prosim
Yes the past tense of Littletune mi pove. is Littletune mi je povedala. Yes I think "je" is like auxiliary verb in French... "Je" is like "is" you know like "to be" only conjugated.

It's like: biti (to be)
Jaz sem (I am)
Ti si (you are)
On, ona, ono je (he, she, it is)

Mi smo (we are)
Vi ste (you are)
Oni, one so (they (male, female) are)

And then... you also have this for only two people... and other languages usually don't have that so it seems weird to people I guess... Cause in slovenian you have singular (when it's only one) and plural (when there are 3 or more) and then also for two people

So it's like this:

Midva sva (we two are)
Vidva sta (you two are)
Onadva, onedve sta (they two are)

Hmm I have to think about the endings... I mean this verb "biti" is really different (I think it's really different in all languages, well at least the ones I know )
I'll look somewhere about the rules for other verbs and then I'll tell you

[littletune]

So... you conjugate most verbs in Slovenian like this: (in present tense):
Lets say you have a word "to play" (so you can say you play piano )

igrati (to play)

Jaz igram    (I play)
Ti igraš       (You play)
On, ona, ono igra   (he, she, it plays)

Mi igramo            (We play)
Vi igrate              (You play)
Oni, one igrajo      (They (male, female) play)

Midva igrava                  (We two play)
Vidva igrata                    (You two play)
Onadva, onedve igrata      They (male, female) play)

So you see you just take away "ti" from the infinitive igrati. And you add:
m, š, 0... mo, te, jo... va, ta, ta   

Really easy right? And I think it's like this for most of the verbs.

[thinkgreenlovepiano]

Hvala lepa, Littletune!

So I would say: Jaz igram  klavir.
Midva igrava klavir.

Or not?  :-/

Oh and you said biti doesn't follow the rules... so are there any other common verbs that are really different? (:

[ongaku_oniko]

that's why european languages are so hard. With chinese, you don't need to conjugate anything; no past tense, pural or any of that complicated stuff

[thinkgreenlovepiano]

Yeah, that's exactly what I tell my parents!
But French isn't so bad... all you need is a Bescherelle

@ littletune, are there conjugation tables/ books for Slovenian?

[littletune]

Hvala lepa, Littletune!

So I would say: Jaz igram  klavir.
Midva igrava klavir.

Or not?  :-/

Oh and you said biti doesn't follow the rules... so are there any other common verbs that are really different? (:

Prosim, Thinkgreenlovepiano! (you have a really long name )

You got everything right! You say: Jaz igram klavir.
and: Midva igrava klavir.
Well... actually if you would be talking about you and me (cause we're both girls) you would say: Midve igrava klavir.

I guess I should have said that before. (but I didn't want to write too many different things and I didn't think it was that important  )...
so you would say:
midve
vidve
onedve
(if you're talking about two girls) So you just put "e" at the end... it's not to difficult right?

Yes I'll write about the verbs that are different, I just have to make sure I don't tell you something wrong
And probably there are some books about that, but I really don't know them  I mean I have my school books... but I don't remember any conjugation tables... hmm